Post by Anja Nieser on Sept 17, 2006 23:11:37 GMT -5
Reader Comments to Pensacola News Journal Article:
1982...seems like a long time to us now........but to me the day officer
Stephen Taylor was shot seems like yesterday...I was a student paramedic
riding an ambulance that day when we heard on the radio about an officer
down at a bank robbery with shots fired. I remember the life flight pilot
advising they were off the roof in route.Even though the scene of the
shooting was a mere 3-4 miles from Baptist when that call goes out all EMS
within range repsonds.I remember the professionally restrained pleas for
ETA's for EMS from fellow police officers.This was the days before body
armor and Mr. Hill got a lucky shot with his 22 caliber pistol that struck
officer Taylor's chest severing his aorta and dying right there before any
paramedic could get to him to bring him back to Baptist's all ready
waiting trauma team for surgery.Basically,officer Taylor never had a
chance.Mr Hill has 25 years now to appeal his death sentence on a very
ironic aurguement of lethal injection is cruel and unusual.
Perhaps Old Sparky would be more to his liking and he could just fry to
death. Anyway, my point is Stephen Taylor lying on the sidewalk with his
life literally draining away because some people (sic) rationalized for
whatever reason robbing a bank was a good idea and then Mr Hill decided
shooting officer Taylor was a good idea also.It's outrageous I'm still
reading about this man trying to evade his ultimate chosen demise.If you
can kill a cop and still be alive 25 years later what's the point other
than closure for his widow,children and family.I write this response this
morning in thanks to all the officers who came to my rescue when I as a
paramedic walked into a few life threatening situations and probaly
would'nt be writing this if on more than one occasion
deputies,officers,troopers of various departments had'nt heard my probaly
not that restrained pleas for help and did whatever it took to get to me
as fast as they could.
So for all of us directly or indirectly involved and the public at large
just put the needle in the guy's arm and get it over with..Given the
choice, I'm sure officer Taylor would gladly accept that needle instead of
the hot,burning bullet he got for just doing his job.
Hard to believe that this man is still alive...
I remember the day back in 1982 very well. When I heard about this
killing, I thought what a shame that some good human being like Officer
Taylor had to die at the hands of such a scumb bag as this.
Over the years I have at times almost lost faith in the justice system
beause of cases like this one. Attorneys that make their living defending
people like this killer are beyond my understanding of justice. There was
NO DOUBT that his scum bag killed this officer. So why oh why is he still
able to have his excution put off for all these many times. The good part
is that for all these many years, (the taxpayers have had to support him
with food, health care, free housing and etc.) he has been behind bars as
he should have been and not allowed to kill more good people. Maybe, maybe
the next time you read about this guy, it will be that finally this man
has paid for his killing of this officer by legal injection. He has been
pronounced dead.
*********
As a citizen of Florida, I do not wish the state to murder any individual
in my name. Murder is murder. Murder is not justice. There is no morality
or justice in the act of murder, period.
****
If Clarence feels the lethal injection process is inhumane -- maybe he
would prefer a firing squad. I believe the State of Utah allows the death
row imate that method as an option -- it certainly would be as humane as
the action he took against Officer Taylor.
****
Let's Get on With it
I'd just arrived in Pensacola from a larger and certainly more crime
ridden town - Philadelphia, Pa. - when this killing took place. Now some
24 years later, the Judiciary is stilll debating the number of Angels that
can fit on the head of a pin. Clarence Hill killed the officer by shooting
him in the back of the head. Who cares if he suffers a little pain when
they prepare him for the execution. Frankly, I'd prefer they march him out
onto the prison courtyard and execute him with a direct shot to the
forehead while facing the executioner.
There's another cop killer, Abu Mumia Jamal, rotting in a Philadelphia
death row cell for some 20 years whose case is hung up the appeals court
system and whom has become a cause celeb for the Hollywood lefties like
Martin Sheen, Alan Alda and other like-minded bleeding hearts of the
liberal radical elites class. This, if for no other reason, is why it is
essential that we elect administrations who will appoint conservative
judges to the Federal Court system and the Supreme Court of the U.S.
(source: Comments Penasacola News Journal)
1982...seems like a long time to us now........but to me the day officer
Stephen Taylor was shot seems like yesterday...I was a student paramedic
riding an ambulance that day when we heard on the radio about an officer
down at a bank robbery with shots fired. I remember the life flight pilot
advising they were off the roof in route.Even though the scene of the
shooting was a mere 3-4 miles from Baptist when that call goes out all EMS
within range repsonds.I remember the professionally restrained pleas for
ETA's for EMS from fellow police officers.This was the days before body
armor and Mr. Hill got a lucky shot with his 22 caliber pistol that struck
officer Taylor's chest severing his aorta and dying right there before any
paramedic could get to him to bring him back to Baptist's all ready
waiting trauma team for surgery.Basically,officer Taylor never had a
chance.Mr Hill has 25 years now to appeal his death sentence on a very
ironic aurguement of lethal injection is cruel and unusual.
Perhaps Old Sparky would be more to his liking and he could just fry to
death. Anyway, my point is Stephen Taylor lying on the sidewalk with his
life literally draining away because some people (sic) rationalized for
whatever reason robbing a bank was a good idea and then Mr Hill decided
shooting officer Taylor was a good idea also.It's outrageous I'm still
reading about this man trying to evade his ultimate chosen demise.If you
can kill a cop and still be alive 25 years later what's the point other
than closure for his widow,children and family.I write this response this
morning in thanks to all the officers who came to my rescue when I as a
paramedic walked into a few life threatening situations and probaly
would'nt be writing this if on more than one occasion
deputies,officers,troopers of various departments had'nt heard my probaly
not that restrained pleas for help and did whatever it took to get to me
as fast as they could.
So for all of us directly or indirectly involved and the public at large
just put the needle in the guy's arm and get it over with..Given the
choice, I'm sure officer Taylor would gladly accept that needle instead of
the hot,burning bullet he got for just doing his job.
Hard to believe that this man is still alive...
I remember the day back in 1982 very well. When I heard about this
killing, I thought what a shame that some good human being like Officer
Taylor had to die at the hands of such a scumb bag as this.
Over the years I have at times almost lost faith in the justice system
beause of cases like this one. Attorneys that make their living defending
people like this killer are beyond my understanding of justice. There was
NO DOUBT that his scum bag killed this officer. So why oh why is he still
able to have his excution put off for all these many times. The good part
is that for all these many years, (the taxpayers have had to support him
with food, health care, free housing and etc.) he has been behind bars as
he should have been and not allowed to kill more good people. Maybe, maybe
the next time you read about this guy, it will be that finally this man
has paid for his killing of this officer by legal injection. He has been
pronounced dead.
*********
As a citizen of Florida, I do not wish the state to murder any individual
in my name. Murder is murder. Murder is not justice. There is no morality
or justice in the act of murder, period.
****
If Clarence feels the lethal injection process is inhumane -- maybe he
would prefer a firing squad. I believe the State of Utah allows the death
row imate that method as an option -- it certainly would be as humane as
the action he took against Officer Taylor.
****
Let's Get on With it
I'd just arrived in Pensacola from a larger and certainly more crime
ridden town - Philadelphia, Pa. - when this killing took place. Now some
24 years later, the Judiciary is stilll debating the number of Angels that
can fit on the head of a pin. Clarence Hill killed the officer by shooting
him in the back of the head. Who cares if he suffers a little pain when
they prepare him for the execution. Frankly, I'd prefer they march him out
onto the prison courtyard and execute him with a direct shot to the
forehead while facing the executioner.
There's another cop killer, Abu Mumia Jamal, rotting in a Philadelphia
death row cell for some 20 years whose case is hung up the appeals court
system and whom has become a cause celeb for the Hollywood lefties like
Martin Sheen, Alan Alda and other like-minded bleeding hearts of the
liberal radical elites class. This, if for no other reason, is why it is
essential that we elect administrations who will appoint conservative
judges to the Federal Court system and the Supreme Court of the U.S.
(source: Comments Penasacola News Journal)